"01" - Outlining A Type One Civilization

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it's not Utopia. It's merely practical.

Creating a compassionate, rational, scientific Type One Civilization.

"The long-term survival of the human race is at risk as long as it is confined to a single planet." - Stephen Hawking

"The generation now alive and our grandchildren are the most important generations ever to walk the earth. We are the generations that will determine whether we make the transitions from Type Zero to Type One or we destroy ourselves because of our arrogance and our weapons." - Michio Kaku

1. When Buildings Think With Their Surroundings

   

   Karl Chu knows he is a man way ahead of his time. It’s a time when, he posits, humans have transcended their bodies to exist on multiple planes, contribute to a global brain, and write apps with their genomes.

   But it’s the implications for architecture that are really exciting, says Chu. The founder of the innovative architectural firm metaxy, he imagines “genetic architects” creating buildings and other objects that can build themselves, that are endowed with a certain kind of intelligence, and that make up a massive “self-aware” built ecosystem.

   As George Dvorsky writes at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies blog

   “Future “genetic buildings” could, for example, be self-assessing, self-healing and self-modifying, thus minimizing their need to be repaired or maintained by external sources. They will morph, process, and react. These buildings could even meet the needs of its inhabitants by sensing the moods or health of its occupants and act accordingly. Needless to say, the potential for sustainability is substantial.”

   Entire article can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/4eubvc2